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...leading architects would certainly include such globally known powers as Japan's Kenzo Tange, Italy's Pier Luigi Nervi, England's James Stirling, and I.M. Pei and Philip Johnson, among some others, in the U.S. Another entry, however, would have to be Alvar Aalto of Finland, who, at 77, may well still be the most original designer building anywhere. Aalto? He is scarcely a household name in the U.S., because he has done little work in America.* But "the maestro," as he is often called in his native land, remains a seer with a special transnational influence...
Aalto once described to some students his approach to a tuberculosis sanatorium he had designed in 1929 at Paimio, in southern Finland's pine forests. Aalto considered how each occupant, from the director on down, not only would use the building but also might feel about it. The janitor, he decided, should have his own closet, not just an impersonal clothes hook. When it came to the hospital rooms, Aalto put himself in the place of the patients. The result: designs for windows that would admit fresh air but not drafts, wash basins that would not splash, and chairs...
...create forms that are based on real human values." The bold, simple form of the Paimio sanatorium thrust Aalto into the vanguard of European functionalism in the 1930s. But that straightforwardness gradually changed as he won other commissions for everything from furniture to factories to whole towns, mostly in Finland. Over the years, his buildings have grown ever more intricate and idiosyncratic, taking odd, seemingly arbitrary shapes. But their genesis-profound thoughtfulness leavened by the free play of emotion-has never changed...
...year search for an East-West accommodation-in Geneva and Paris, in Glassboro and Vladivostok-takes President Gerald R. Ford this week to the capital of Finland for a new round of that mixture of diplomacy and show business known as summitry (see THE WORLD). With 35 nations in attendance, the Helsinki conclave is being touted as the most spectacular since the Congress of Vienna, and yet because the preliminary negotiations have led to no real change in the current state of uneasy detente, the world is also being told that the European Security Conference is mostly show, a ratification...
...conference tables and translating equipment. The government planned to requisition at least 2,500 of the city's 4,000 hotel rooms (thereby creating a problem for 1,500 doctors who are due this week for an international conference on blood transfusion). Police leaves have been canceled throughout Finland, and the 1,800-man Helsinki force has been bolstered with 800 special troops. Although Finland has no known terrorist groups and no organizations have publicly opposed the conference, police were nonetheless watching for foreign troublemakers, like West German anarchists associated with the Baader-Meinhof gang...